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Embracing Change: How Northwest ATTC is Helping Programs Enhance Their Co-occurring Disorder Services – A Model for Success

Published: 07/21/2022

By Denna Vandersloot, co-director, Northwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center Many clients seeking care for their substance use disorder also have co-occurring mental health disorders – and vice versa. Treating both types of conditions at the same time by providing quality integrated services is more effective than treating each disorder separately. Yet while integrated care has […]

SUD and Beyond: Schools Use NIATx To Improve Youth Suicide Prevention Efforts

Published: 06/14/2022

By: Kristina Spannbauer, Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, & PTTC Communications Specialist The NIATx model for process improvement was initially based on the question: Could the strategies used to improve processes in manufacturing and other industries be used to improve services in other fields, such as in substance use disorder (SUD), mental health, and educational settings? […]

A Glimpse of New York State’s Program to Address Hepatitis C and SUD

Published: 05/17/2022

Public health officials in New York State have launched a new learning collaborative aiming to integrate Hepatitis C testing and treatment into Opioid Treatment Programs. One of the ATTC Network's products, Guide to Integrating HCV Services into Opioid Treatment Programs, played a key role in helping launch the collaborative. Here's our Q&A with Mehvish Bhatti, project […]

NIATx Principle # 4: Getting Ideas from Outside the Field …Or From Inside Track and Field

Published: 09/30/2020

By Mat Roosa, LCSW-RNIATx Coach The United States has consistently produced some of the best track and field sprinters for decades and decades. And the United States 4x100 relay teams have been disqualified from a painfully large number of World Championship and Olympic races as a result of dropped batons or botched handoffs. Why have […]

Share Your Perspectives about Opioid Use Disorder among People with Disabilities from Minority Backgrounds

Published: 06/10/2020

Share Your Perspectives about Opioid Use Disorder among People with Disabilities from Minority Backgrounds.Please click or cut and paste survey link below to participate: https://www.psychdata.com/s.asp?SID=189204 We are pleased to invite substance, mental health service and vocational rehabilitation professionals (e.g., counselors, clinicians, directors) from across the country that provide to participate in a national study on […]

Hepatitis C Prescriber Toolkit

Published: 02/12/2020

Laura W. Cheever, MD, ScM Associate Administrator for HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Although advances in HIV care and treatment result in longer life expectancy for people with HIV, those who are coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C have a high risk of liver-related illness and death. Viral hepatitis progresses faster and causes more liver-related health problems […]

American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry’s 30th Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium

Published: 10/23/2019

Exciting things are happening at American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry’s (AAAP) 30th Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium this year in San Diego, CA. AAAP is offering two Pre-Conference courses: Advanced Addiction Psychopharmacology, and Addictions and Their Treatment. These two courses will immerse you into a world of clinical knowledge that will help you improve your […]

The Role of Spirituality and Faith in the Treatment and Healing of SUDs

Published: 08/15/2019

Dawn Tyus, LPC, MAC, NCC Director, Southeast ATTC Celene Craig, MPH, MS Over the past decade, there has been an emphasis on addressing the acute alcohol and drug addiction crisis in the United States. In 2016, more than 63,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the U.S., a 21.5% increase from 2015. As of 2018, 20.1 […]

Help people with opioid use disorders with ATTC Network Educational Packages: TwitterChat on Oct.30!

Published: 10/26/2018

October 29, 2018 What do you need to know to help people with opioid use disorders? Finding the answer to that question is now easier with the ATTC Educational Packages for Opioid Use Disorders. Each digital guide offers information and links to the latest resources on how to: Prevent opioid misuse Intervene with individuals at […]

Community Resilience: Recovering Together

Published: 07/26/2018

July 30, 2018 Caroline Miller, MSW Director, Wisconsin Voices for Recovery Associate Researcher, UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Rally for Recovery, State Capitol, Madison WI, September 2017 Wisconsin Voices for Recovery is actively building community resilience through its events and programming across the state. Two initiatives in particular, the ED2Recovery program and […]

Responsible Gambling Programs

Published: 03/12/2018

March 13, 2017Christine ReillySenior Research DirectorNational Center for Responsible Gaming Warning messages on gaming machines. Self-exclusion programs. Programs to limit money and time spent gambling. These are just a few responsible gambling strategies in use around the world. Responsible gambling (RG) refers to programs that seek to prevent or reduce gambling-related harms. The impetus behind […]

Everything you need to know about medications for treating opioid use disorders: SAMHSA TIP 63

Published: 02/20/2018

February 20, 2018 Maureen Fitzgerald ATTC Network Coordinating Office/NIATx Finding the most up-to-date information on how to support people with opioid use disorder (OUD) just got easier with the release of SAMHSA's TIP 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder. An expert panel of researchers, policy makers, treatment providers, and others helped to develop TIP 63. Research […]

Understanding Substance Use Disorders: New online course covers the basics

Published: 02/06/2018

February 6, 2018 Heather Gotham, PhD Associate Research Professor Mid-America ATTC The newest course on HealtheKnowledge, Understanding Substance Use Disorders, is a collaborative effort between the UMKC-SBIRT Project (a SAMHSA-funded SBIRT health professions training grant; www.sbirt.care) and the Mid-America ATTC. Through UMKC-SBIRT we had several requests for a basic training on substance use disorders, as several […]

Treatment and Recovery News Roundup

Published: 11/28/2017

November 28, 2017 Maureen Fitzgerald ATTC Network Coordinating Office NIATx Did your recent holiday include a holiday from the news? Get caught up with these links to breaking treatment and recovery headline stories: The Health 202: This hotel CEO thinks he can fix America's opioid abuse problem, Washington Post: "Gary Mendell, the chairman of HEI […]

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